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  • Judge Judy's new friend

    Judge Judy's new friend

    March 12, 2010

    So, why did Andrew Cuomo blink? The attorney general yesterday backed off a probe of possible crimi nal conduct on the part of Gov. Paterson, handing the task to former Court...

  • Back to the starting gate

    Back to the starting gate

    March 12, 2010

    Gov. Paterson yesterday finally pulled the plug on Aqueduct Entertainment Group's lucrative contract to build the city's first racino. What took so long? Paterson based his...

  • It's your fault too, Mike

    It's your fault too, Mike

    March 12, 2010

    Mayor Bloomberg has a lot of nerve criticizing Lt. Gov. Richard Ra vitch's plan to pile up more debt to deal with the state's fiscal crisis. "I think that doesn't pass the...

  • Borrowing trouble

    Borrowing trouble

    March 11, 2010

    Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch is a smart guy, experienced and steeped in the ar cana of municipal finance. This makes the borrow-and-spend budget plan he presented in Albany yesterday...

  • Israel's Biden slap

    Israel's Biden slap

    March 11, 2010

    Timing, former Canadian Prime Minis ter Pierre Trudeau used to say, is the essential ingredient of politics. If so, then the Israeli government committed a boneheaded move...

  • The truth about Indian Point

    The truth about Indian Point

    March 11, 2010

    The Indian Point nuclear power plant is safe. So says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which noted that the facility last year "operated in a manner that preserved public...

  • Debt addicts

    Debt addicts

    March 10, 2010

    Don't blame Greece for its financial woes, Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday after meeting with President Obama. Blame "speculators." Which got us wondering:...

  • Aqueduct slots: all lemons

    Aqueduct slots: all lemons

    March 10, 2010

    Looks like the wheels are falling off the Aqueduct racino proposal. Queens power broker Rev. Floyd Flake yesterday walked away from the deal. Then Gov. Paterson did likewise...

  • Greg Meeks' loud silence

    Greg Meeks' loud silence

    March 10, 2010

    Just last week, Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks said he couldn't wait to sit down for a TV interview to address all allegations raised by a series of Post articles about his supposedly...

  • Democracy in Iraq

    Democracy in Iraq

    March 09, 2010

    It will be several more days before the official results of Iraq's second national parliamentary elections are known -- which, in itself, is a sign of remarkable political...

  • Hollywood gets it right

    Hollywood gets it right

    March 09, 2010

    Further evidence that the progress in Iraq is real came from a most unlikely direction Sunday -- from Hollywood. Not one, but three golden statues at Sunday's Academy Awards...

  • A pro-taxpayer NY pol

    A pro-taxpayer NY pol

    March 09, 2010

    Here's something you don't see every day: A New York elected official taking on a public-employee union that's bleeding his constituents dry. So, all the better that the...

  • Judge Garaufis' conflict

    Judge Garaufis' conflict

    March 08, 2010

    Last week, Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis effectively ordered the immediate dismantlement of New York's system of privately run, but state-licensed, group homes for the...

  • Speaker Quinn's pander

    Speaker Quinn's pander

    March 08, 2010

    You could almost see the pitchforks and torches last week at those public hearings on the service cuts the MTA is planning to close a $750 million operating deficit. Wednesday...

  • Getting through to unions

    Getting through to unions

    March 07, 2010

    It’s amazing what a mass of pink slips can do to make a teachers union see the light — especially when the layoffs are publicly hailed by the president of the United States. On...

  • Judge Judy's friends

    Judge Judy's friends

    March 07, 2010

    Former New York Chief Judge Judith Kaye has become the “go to” lawyer these days for dubious outfits that find themselves in hot water. The shady Working Families Party hired...

  • Time to pack it in, Dave

    Time to pack it in, Dave

    March 06, 2010

    Give David Paterson more time: That's what several top Democrats and a number of African-American leaders are insisting -- even as calls for the scandal-scarred governor to quit...

  • Go get 'em, Ed

    Go get 'em, Ed

    March 06, 2010

    To paraphrase an old saying, everybody talks about the festering political cor ruption in Albany, but no one does anything about it. Now along comes former Mayor Ed Koch, to...

  • Get well soon, Hugh

    Get well soon, Hugh

    March 06, 2010

    Former Gov. Hugh Carey may have left office more than a quarter-century ago, but he is well remembered by those who endured New York's fiscal crisis of the '70s and how he saved...

  • Thou shalt not lie

    Thou shalt not lie

    March 05, 2010

    OK -- what's so terrible about a gover nor taking free baseball tickets? Hell, what's the point of being gov ernor if you can't get comped to a ball game -- even a World...

  • Race for the chumps

    Race for the chumps

    March 05, 2010

    President Obama's allegedly reform- minded Department of Education of fered New York as much as $700 million in bonus school aid -- provided Albany adopted some key...

  • Brother to The Bravest

    Brother to The Bravest

    March 05, 2010

    New York's Bravest honored a fallen Marine this week, bestowing the title of honorary firefighter on Sgt. Christopher Hrbek. Hrbek, who was killed in Afghanistan's Helmand...

  • What next?

    What next?

    March 04, 2010

    So now it's perjury? The state Commission on Public Integrity yesterday charged Gov. Paterson with illegally snaring free World Series Yankee tickets last year -- as Post...

  • Rangel's wrist-slap

    Rangel's wrist-slap

    March 04, 2010

    Charlie Rangel yesterday was granted a face-saving "leave of absence" as House Ways and Means Committee chairman, pending the outcome of multiple ethics investigations. A...

  • One more down

    One more down

    March 03, 2010

    One more big fish down. One even bigger fish to go. Harry Corbitt, Gov. Paterson's hand-picked State Police superintendent, quit last night, following key Paterson aide...

  • Another notch for Schumer

    Another notch for Schumer

    March 03, 2010

    Chuck "The Enforcer" Schumer can cut another notch on his revolver. New York's senior senator has spent much of the past year clearing the potential Democratic primary field...

  • One more nail

    One more nail

    March 02, 2010

    So it transpires that Gov. Paterson not only had advance knowledge of efforts to "counsel" a woman who was seeking protection from one of his closest aides, he was personally...

  • The coming homeless boom

    The coming homeless boom

    March 02, 2010

    Get ready for more street people. US District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis yesterday ordered Albany to immediately begin moving mentally ill adults out of group homes and...

  • The WFP in court

    The WFP in court

    March 01, 2010

    Is the Working Families Party finally cleaning up its act? We'll believe it when it happens. Nevertheless, it was gratifying to see the far-left party agree in a Staten...

  • The price of a Weiner

    The price of a Weiner

    March 01, 2010

    That was some temper tantrum the terminally excitable Anthony Weiner threw on the floor of the House of Representatives the other day. It was a trademark rant on alleged GOP...